The stories from this trip are wild. edit: It was a school trip.
Can practically see the hidden camera of the KGB in the corner of the hotel room.
You just reminded me of passport control! In those days Ireland issued 10 year passports to kids. I had gotten mine at 7 or 8 so it was nearly out of date and obviously I looked nothing like my passport photo with my 1980’s “bowl” haircut. This is pre-laminated passport days where they literally glued your picture to your passport.
Anyway… we all got a good looking over but the passport control guy must have looked at me, then passport, then me, for what felt like five minutes. No words were spoken. It was very intimidating.
“Oh fuck, what do I do??? They’re going to figure out I can’t read if I keep looking at this kids passport much longer!”
I miss the 90s style ponytails with shaved sides/back. Then again, I miss having hair. 🤣
I miss having hair
Same. I nearly never wore the pony and only just noticed it after posting this pic. It was peak Nirvana days (and I saw them later that year in Dublin or maybe the next year) and we called that hairstyle an “undercut”. Here’s a pic from the same trip where it was my usual. I am pretty sure this is on the overnight train from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
And your friends are doing blackface??!!
Tsk tsk tsk. The 90s really were a different time.
